At 13:19 26/02/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Saturday 24 February 2001 at about 18:20 UTC Mir and ISS were seen
>*simultaneously* in several parts of France and in Belgium. Weather in
>southern France was better than further north, so most observations
>were made in the south.
>
>As far as I know, this was the first such encounter (and also the last)
Salyut 7(another space station) and Mir have been in orbit at the same time
and they have been co-planar for a while.(remember the Soyuz T15 mission
from Mir to Salyut 7 and back).
This would have made them both visible at the same time.
Did anyone observe this in 1986 ?
Greetings,
Tristan Cools tcools@village.uunet.be
Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS)
Damse Vaart: 3.2478E/51.2277N - OBS place 1
Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2
Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home)
http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/index.htm
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